[lbo-talk] "pale male" ... question to new yorkers...

[John Thornton]

Not a joke. I don't want to mention him by name because that somehow seems 
wrong and someone on the list may know him so it would cause an 
embarrassing moment for the guy if that were to happen. The fact that an 
intelligent man making an extremely high six figure salary believed 
something of this nature was mind boggling to me. Of course he paid some 
service to change the lightbulbs in his house every other month so that he 
would not have to ever worry about one burning out so maybe he wasn't as 
bright as I give him credit for being. He was kind of a bore, always 
telling everyone he lived in the house that Ed McMahon used to own in Port 
Washington and what great friends he was with the president of Rolex 
Industries who lived across the street. This only impressed people who 
couldn't "help" him in any meaningful way and served to make him look 
insecure to those who could. He was convinced that wasn't true when I told 
him that was my opinion.
He was a good source of info and he did take me down onto the trading floor 
of the exchange once so putting up with his stupidity was worth it at the time.
The woman who was afraid of Indians scalping people was also otherwise 
intelligent. College grad, had her Masters, executive at American Airlines, 
and very well traveled. I only found out about the scalping fear because I 
found out she was a little afraid of me since I am a Native American. She 
was afraid to let her son and daughter travel to the west because of it. I 
couldn't convince her otherwise.
This type of insularity I have only seen in NYer's. Maybe people from LA or 
SF are occasionally like this too. I never met anyone like these people 
when I lived in Chicago but that doesn't mean they don't exist. It's 
probably everywhere and I've on just seen it in many NYer's but my gut 
feeling is NY has a disproportionate amount.

John Thornton


><< I knew one NYer that used to think
>milk was a manufactured product like Coke! He was a trader at Goldman 
>Sachs ... >>
>
>Tell me you're joking. This is some kind of lefty urban legend, right? 
>Alienation ad absurdum, something like that?